298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

It’s a petty thing, but I wouldn’t join the Scouts when I was a kid, ’cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I’m just not a royalist. I think it’s idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that’s patent nonsense.

There’s so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

Don’t try to touch my heart, it’s darker than you think. And don’t try to read my mind, because it’s full of disappearing ink.

There’s no money back guarantee on future happiness.

Well there’s a line that you must toe and it’ll soon be time to go but it’s darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows.

Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I’d still own the film rights and be working on the sequal.